AD THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1572-87. 



were all naked. And one of the sayd Indians went to 

 the towne, and caried newes of the Englishmen : where- 

 upon the captaine of the towne sent out foure horse- 

 men, which brought them to the towne behinde them, 

 and the sayd captaine clothed them, and provided 

 lodging for them, and John Drake sate at the captaines 

 owne table, and hee intreated them all very well, 

 thinking to send them for Spaine. But the Viceroy 

 of Peru hearing this newes sent for them, and they 

 sent him John Drake ; but the other two they kept, 

 because they were maried in the countrey. Thus much 

 concerning their affaires. Upon these newes also there 

 were prepared fifty horsemen to goe over the river, 

 both to seeke the rest of the Englishmen, and certaine 

 Spaniardes which were amongst those Salvage people ; 

 but I am not assured whether they went forward or no. 

 Nowe let us returne to Diego Flores : who passing 

 from the Island of Santa Catelina towards the streights 

 of Magellan in the middle of February, and comming 

 The governor to the height of the river of Plate, sent the governour 

 of Chili Qf Chili with three ships up the river to Buenos Ayres, 



blh river ^^^^ ^^^ might from thence passe overland to Chili. 

 of Plate. Of these three ships two were lost, but the men and 



provisions were saved ; and the third returned for 

 Spaine. Then Diego Flores with the other seven ships 

 proceeded on to the latitude of 52. degrees, whereas 

 the mouth of the Streights beginneth : but because it 

 was the ende of March, which there is the latter ende 

 of summer, the countrey was so full of snow, and 

 withall there arose such a sudden storme, that he 

 could not set Sarmiento and his men on shore, but 

 was constrained the second time to returne unto the 

 river of Jenero upon the coast of Brasil ; where he 

 heard newes of the English ships by the two Spanish 

 ships that escaped from them. Upon which newes he 

 left his lieutenant Diego de Ribera, and Pedro 

 Sarmiento, that they might the next yeere returne for 

 the streights. And so Diego Flores himselfe with foure 



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